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Is that supposed to be surprising? And what does that mean for Obama?In my opinion not much. I was speaking with the café's new dishwarsher, Robin, who has been volunteering at Oregon's OBAMA headquarters, and he tells me the read is pretty clear: Obama is going to win Oregon by a landslide. Most seem to think he will take Kentucky as well.

However, with blacks and whites polarizing more and more each day, I predict the objective of the democratic candidates is going to radically shift from health care and working-class issues to race politics. It's a sad and pathetic macrocosm to Hampshire's "Action Awareness Week."

Joan Walsh writes

Everybody's [democrats] going to have to be more careful in the next few months, in the way they talk about race, while also talking about it. A lot. I don't know how we figure that one out, but we have to. It's a fact that Barack Obama's getting more than 90 percent of the black vote in recent primaries. It's a fact that Hillary Clinton's getting at least 60 percent of the white vote in the same time frame. To unite the party behind the eventual nominee, who is almost certainly Obama, Democrats will have to talk about the motivations behind those numbers, the grievances, the affinities, the hopes, the dreams, and the biases. And most Democrats who've opened their mouths about it this week have done a bad job.

I don't doubt Obama, that wet noodle, has the upper hand now, but I just wonder if he can hold a candle to McCain?